Secondary Modern

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Yoooo! Happy Valentine's Day to you lonely dukes and duchesses. Here's one for you: Plaza Records just released David's previously internet-only eps in cassette tape form. Here is a little promo video shot by our pal Josh Murphy in DB's attic studio, Jurassic Park. You can pick up a copy and check out the other Plaza releases HERE.

Monday, January 12, 2015

We have been keeping to ourselves since we got home from tour. We spent the first week of December in Chicago recording with the 9th Beatle, David Allen, at Observatory Studios. A new full length album rabbit-ed itself out of that hat. We're very happy with it. It's called ANIMAL CHATTER and it doesn't really sound like any of our other albums. Maybe that's a lie.

We're currently wrapping up sequencing and mastering. We'll have it for you in the spring. Until then, here are a few shows. We'll try out some of the new songs and you can tell us if you think it's all gone to Hell.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Our plans for the rest of the year are simple:
tour next month (more on that later), ward off panic attacks, finish a
new full-length album, finally read Infinite Jest, destroy our enemies,
raise our friends high, and listen to the grass grow.

Monday, August 25, 2014

Hi,
We are always busy with one project or another and right now is no exception. Matt recently produced and engineered an album by our pal Ben Vaughn. I think it's good. Strange folk songs. Strange pop songs. Unexpected arrangements. It is a pleasure to hear my friends/bandmates/contemporaries make music I like this much. It is coming out on our label, Plaza Records, and you can pre-order it HERE along with other titles on the label. Shipping starts 9/5 and you can pick one up at Plaza Records that day or at the PLAZA / CMC showcase that night at Hangar 9 w/ Lucero and Promised Land Sound.

(more Plaza news soon)
Here are a couple of tracks. I hope you like them as much as I do.

Lies:

Secondary Modern: three young, mid-westerners who play music together and sit in a giant red van for long periods of time together. Their home base is an immortal record shop called Plaza Records. Big Bill Broonzy is their grandpa and Benvenuto Cellini is their untrustworthy uncle.